This is one beautiful cosplay accessory-a replica Gunblade from the video game Final Fantasy VIII that doesn’t look like a cardboard blade covered in gobs of paint.
The guy who built this screen worthy replica made it for a college course in prop making, using MDF, balsa wood an a Pringles can to get the job [...]

A prisoner/geek in Wales had his secret stash of matchstick weapons, including the Buster Sword and Squall’s Gunblade from the Final Fantasy video game series, confiscated because:
“…the realism of the swords presented a threat to staff safety, not because they could be used to send the staff back to the Lifestream, but because [...]